Coping With Medical Uncertainty

Making health decisions in the face of uncertainty

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/uncertainty-in-medicine-and-making-health-decisions-let-your-values-be-your-guide-2016122110874

Medical uncertainty is frustrating for patients and doctors; it’s also challenging to try and understand it. For any decision we make …

Chronic Illness and Uncertainty | Psychology Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/chronically-me/201904/chronic-illness-and-uncertainty

Uncertainty takes a mental toll. It’s related to emotional distress, anxiety and depression (McCormick, 2002). It can influence our experience of disease by worsening …

Uncertainty in medicine | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2180

Uncertainty is ubiquitous in medicine. It can be seen in something as basic as a differential diagnosis or as complex as a new set …

Clinical decision-making: coping with uncertainty

https://pmj.bmj.com/content/78/920/319

Too much emphasis in medical training on removing or reducing uncertainty will crowd out what little attention is being paid to educating doctors into the …

10 tips for dealing with the stress of uncertainty

https://www.apa.org/topics/stress/uncertainty

Dealing with uncertainty in general practice: an essential …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21781433/

Skills to deal with uncertainty are particularly important in general practice as undifferentiated and unorganised problems are a common challenge for general …

Dealing with medical uncertainty: a physician's perspective

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15559102/

We review the current evidence for and effects of physician uncertainty in medical practice. Although uncertainty in practice cannot be completely eliminated, numerous strategies …

Dealing with Uncertainty - HelpGuide.org

https://www.helpguide.org/articles/anxiety/dealing-with-uncertainty.htm

The following tips can help you to: Focus on controlling those things that are under your control. Challenge your need for certainty. Learn to better tolerate, even embrace, the inevitable uncertainty of life. …

Living with uncertainty - Stanford Report

https://news.stanford.edu/report/2020/11/04/living-with-uncertainty/

Reframe uncertainty as normal. Often, we feel alone and isolated when coping with an adverse event, like we’re more impacted than others or are the only ones …

6 Therapist-Approved Tips for Living With All This …

https://www.self.com/story/living-with-uncertainty-tips

In case you’re in the same emotional boat, here are six practical tips for getting through the fear of what’s going to happen next. 1. Normalize your uncertainty …